Drive-Thru Restaurant

Location: Corte Madera, CA

Architects: Interstice Architects / William Duff Architects

Branding: Clark & Reilly

Photography: Cesar Rubio

Project Description: This is be the restaurant’s second location in the Bay Area and the first drive-thru restaurant in the town of Corte Madera. In order to create family-oriented restaurants, the goal is to cultivate a residential environment with a farmhouse aesthetic. Exposed prefabricated timber trusses span the structure, while white painted cedar clad the interior walls and ceiling.

he Drive-Thru, situated along the Highway 101 corridor, is a long and thin lozenge-shaped property squeezed between Paradise Drive and the Mt. Tamalpais exit ramp, about a dozen miles north of San Francisco. INTERSTICE Architects partnered with the company to create this community-oriented destination for busy households and passerby where one doesn’t have to compromise budget or time to enjoy healthy comfort food. The architecture of the restaurant is a hybrid between a farm kitchen and an agrarian barn, using weathered woods and plenty of natural light. My role was to coordinate consultant drawings and develop details during the Design Development and Construction Documents phase.